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“House of Cards” star Robin Wright has revealed that she demanded to be paid the same salary as her male co-star Kevin Spacey for her work on the show.
“I was like, ‘I want to be paid the same as Kevin,’” said Wright, in an interview with the Rockefeller Foundation.
“It was a perfect paradigm… There are very few films or TV shows where the male – the patriarch, and the matriarch are equal. And they are in ‘House of Cards,'” said Wright, who plays Claire Underwood, the wife and co-conspirator to Spacey’s Frank Underwood.
“I was looking at statistics and Claire Underwood’s character was more popular than [Frank’s] for a period of time. So I capitalized on that moment. I was like, ‘You better pay me or I’m going to go public. And they did.”
Wright is also a producer of the popular Netflix show and has directed a number of episodes.
See the full interview below:
